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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Recession, shmecession. In Michael Kors's opinion the economy shouldn't keep any woman from looking luxurious. In an interview with the Independent UK , the designer explained his obsession with glamour even in the face of the crisis: "You could say 'but I don't understand, we're in a recession'. The economy isn't at its strongest so why are we so attracted?" he asks. "But if you watch...
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Shoetube.tv Blog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Whenever I’m packing to visit old friends and family, like I am right now, I start channeling Katharine Hepburn as Pat in 1952’s Pat and Mike (he’s Spencer Tracy). I’m pulling out all my nipped-in pants, blousey tops and and casual cardis. No matter what situation Pat gets into, including playing multiple pro sports, she looks [...]
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New English Review/The Iconoclast (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Yes, Zadie Smith is a bit pretentious and very overrated, but does she deserve this? Peter Conrad, a goblin in the Guardian, sinks his white teeth into her latest book. Then rolls it around on his tongue, slurps, gasps, smacks his lips and burps: For Zadie Smith, criticism is a bodily pleasure, not an abstracted mental operation. Reading, like eating, caters to her ravenous but discriminating appetite:...
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Waveney Valley Blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
COMING SOON AT THE BUNGAY FILM CLUB COCO BEFORE CHANEL (Coco Avant Chanel) (12A) Monday 25 January 2010 Director: Anne Fontaine. France 2009. 110 minutes. In French with English subtitles. Starring: Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola and Emmanuelle Devos. Coco Chanel, the fashion designer, began life as plain Gabrielle. The story of her ascent from orphanage to couturier is told in...
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A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Amanda Bonner ( played by Katharine Hepburn ): “You haven't tried to see my point of view. You haven't even any respect for my, my, my…” Adam Bonner (played by Spencer Tracy) : “There we go, there we go, there we go - Oh, oh, here we go again. The old juice.” ( She begins to cry because he refuses to understand her strong feelings and point of view .) “Ah, guaranteed...
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Happily Ever After (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
From BonzaSheila, Legendary Lovers~ http://bonzasheila.com/stories/hepburntracy.html ~In 1942, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy co-starred in Woman of The Year, the first of nine films they would make together and the beginning of a romance that would become legendary.Gratitude... tis’ the season to take a look at what we’re most grateful for. I’ll admit this year has been challenging...
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GeekDad (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Everybody knows the classic winter holiday movies, from older ones like It’s a Wonderful Life to newer ones like A Christmas Story, to ones that get remade over and over again like A Christmas Carol. Whether or not you like such movies, you must admit that it does get a bit repetitive watching the same [...]
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Blog Absolute Point (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Suddenly Last Summer Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, an artist-directed theatre company now in its 6th Season, has announced staged reading performances of Tennessee Williams rarely performed A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (Crève Cœur is derived from French for “broken … see more. See also: montgomery clift | orson welles | paul newman | joanne [...]
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Sify (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Veteran actress Helen Mirren is to be conferred with a lifetime achievement award for her contribution to cinema.
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Veteran actress DAME HELEN MIRREN is to be awarded a lifetime achievement honour for her contribution to the film industry.The Queen Oscar-winner will be presented with...
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JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
It was May 12th of'07 when Katharine Hepburn was born. Her parents had named her Katharina Houghton Hepburn but she changed the final "a" to and "e" as her stage name. She had a very good upbringing seeing as though her mother was a suffragist and her father was a doctor. Today she is considered to be perhaps one of the best actresses of all time.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Amelia Earhart, the great pioneer aviatrix, has been impersonated on screen by numerous actresses, among them Katharine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, Diane Keaton and Amy Adams. But never as convincingly as she is by Hilary Swank in this immensely enjoyably biopic from the Indian director who made her name with Salaam Bombay! . With the right short haircut, some orthodontic effects and sporting her regular...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Zadie Smith's passion for writing and film shines through in this sparkling collection of criticism, says an admiring Peter Conrad For Zadie Smith, criticism is a bodily pleasure, not an abstracted mental operation. Reading, like eating, caters to her ravenous but discriminating appetite: she finds the essence of Kafka in a sliver of words from his diary, carved, she says, as thin as Parma ham and...
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Indygal Goes to Holyrood! (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
I met a wee girl tonight. A very wee girl. 8lb and 10 oz to be precise. And not yet 24 hours old although she will be by the time I finish writing this. Her name is Rebecca Catherine Hepburn and I thought a piece of advice from her famous namesake would not go amiss. Her mummy and daddy are Julie and Jamie Hepburn. Jamie is a Central Scotland MSP and Julie has a good chance of being the Cumbernauld...
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Show Tracker (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Nov. 8 - 14 in PDF format This week's TV Movies STEADY: Ariel's boyfriend (Matt Prokop, left) is suspected of a murder investigated by Scanlon and Allison (David Cubitt, Patricia...